Ebola: The Gear Worn to Prevent Infection

Bodily fluids present an infection risk to medical workers treating patients with ebola. What gear do they wear? WSJ's Jason Bellini has #TheShortAnswer. Originally published on Oct. 1.

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I don't go role in isolation camp in Monrovia Liberia ... who has a very long ... gets help drinking water from two medical workers from doctors without Borders MSF ... as you can see there taking precautions By wearing protective clothing ... How do medical workers to adopt a treatable patients here's the protocol ... the medical worker Stuttgart in from the mirror typically starting out in scrubs and as the second person observing ... to do body checks ... to come on ... it's made of rubber ... reaching above the ankles next to worker puts on her said of him latex gloves the kind worn by doctors and nurses were doing general exams next the hazmat suit ... to refer to as the overall stock that securely in place ... on comes a surgical mask known as and and ninety five ... it blocks microbes from entering and exiting the respiratory system ... it goes on over the head ... it has another mass built into it ... followed by a waterproof paper and ... then the goggles ... but first are sprayed with an anti funding solution by in the ... second set of gloves and rubber ones some workers will also strapped on to the contamination sprayer ... which contains two point five percent chlorine solution ... at this point the medical workers raid into what's known as the red zone or hot zone ... and treat Ebola infected patients ... the downing process takes about fifteen minutes ... it trades on the clock is ticking ... because it's so hot inside ... MSF limits the time a worker wears it to an hour taking off the protective wear or don't think it is even more about costs ... legal pads rather Naturals bought in the hot zone ... before leaving the high risk area ... workers wash the cloud covered hands in a chlorine solution ... and walk through of chlorine what a ... difference to get sprayed from and that ... the other gloves are either doused in the disinfectant or thrown away then off come the goggles then the first seven months till my hands are disinfected ... before moving ahead cover which is drawn away in plastic and ... now it's time to remove the heavy overalls ... which gets thrown away hands washed again ... by me the gloves come off their hands washed again the Beats cloth to dry ... usually upside down on sticks and it's finally safe to eat the hot zone ... and entered the low risk area ... the process requires training ... and then following its highly specific protocol ... to avoid the fate of some of West Africa's most prominent doctors ... who died from a ball ... the short answer ...